Last meeting: The Colts cruised past the Jaguars 27-10 on Nov. 8, 2012 at EverBank Field. QB Andrew Luck ran for two scores and the Colts led 24-3 after the third quarter.

Quick look: Indianapolis is in win-now mode after surprisingly reaching the playoffs last season. The Colts traded a first-round pick to Cleveland last week for RB Trent Richardson and are coming off a statement win vs. the 49ers.

SEATTLE — Like Washington, Minnesota and the New York Giants, the Jaguars have lost their first three games during a September to forget.

But that’s where the similarities end.

The Redskins and Vikings were 2012 playoff teams and have franchise centerpiece players at quarterback and running back, respectively, and the Giants, while currently a mess, still have a locker room full of established veterans.

The Jaguars don’t have anything — no wins, no rhythm on offense, no consistency on defense and no end to the losing in sight.

As the largest underdog in team history (19½ points), the Jaguars posed little resistance to the rolling Seattle Seahawks, dropping a 45-17 decision at rainy-turned-sunny CenturyLink Field.

The Jaguars are 0-3 for the third time in franchise history, not totally surprising considering the reliance on players who are equal parts young or journeymen to play large roles. But the bigger issue is they’re getting their doors blown off.

“I believe in our team, I do,” coach Gus Bradley said. “But I believe we can do more — a lot more. We have to go through this journey together. The players have to evaluate, the coaches have to evaluate and we have to find out what we’re doing well.”

Seattle (3-0) could have named its score. The Seahawks built a 24-0 halftime lead and were up 31-7 when coach Pete Carroll took quarterback Russell Wilson and running back Marshawn Lynch out of the game late in the third quarter.

Some of the Jaguars’ grim details:

■ Seattle’s five touchdown passes were tied for the most allowed by a Jaguars defense.

■ The Jaguars have been outscored 55-5 in the first half this year.

“All you can do is just go out there, compete and give it your all,” receiver Cecil Shorts said. “We believe in the process and like Gus says, ‘Trust it and the results will come.’ We’re a very young team and have a lot of stuff to improve on and learn from.”

The Jaguars can pick just about any category to serve as a starting point.

“All sides can take blame in this,” Bradley said.

The offense had minus-9 yards in the first quarter, the defense allowed first-half touchdown drives of 71, 40 and 79 yards, and the special teams are a non-factor.

Any chance the Jaguars had for a respectable outcome evaporated before halftime.

Johnathan Cyprien’s sack/forced fumble gave the Jaguars possession at the Seahawks’ 44. Six plays later, Chad Henne’s pass over the middle hit center Brad Meester in the back of the helmet. Running back Maurice Jones-Drew tipped it in the air, and linebacker Bobby Wagner intercepted.

The Seahawks cashed in, moving 79 yards on five plays to make the score 24-0 on Wilson’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Sidney Rice.

And the rout was on.

“That was frustrating for everybody,” Bradley said. “There was a chance to get the momentum going.”

To get the offense going, two things need to happen: The running game needs to be more productive, and Shorts needs to be more involved.

The running game (2.4 yards per carry this year) is broken to the point Bradley said the Jaguars might get away from some of the “zone” blocking concepts they adopted in the offseason. In the second half, they ran more “gap” scheme plays to create inside running lanes.

It would represent a radical philosophical difference this early in a regime, but times are getting desperate.

“We came out running some outside zone, and it just wasn’t working,” Meester said. “We switched it up and ran some gap and power stuff. We have all those in our playbook. It wasn’t like we were switching things [on the fly]. We have to find what works.”

Said Bradley: “That’s what we have to look at — what their strengths are and making sure we play to their strengths. Maybe it’s a gap scheme.”

Until Jones-Drew gets going, Shorts is the Jaguars’ best offensive weapon. But he had just one catch for 15 yards in the first half; the rest of his career-high 143 yards came in garbage time.

“That’s not my position [to call the plays],” Shorts said. “I go out and run the play that’s called. That’s how it played out. I’m not too worried about it. As an offense, we have to get going. It’s not just me, per se. We have to get rolling.”

Just three games into the season, the only place Jaguars are rolling toward is the No. 1 position in next May’s draft.

looks like the seahawks put their 3rd. string after the 1st. quarter.so we need to scored 8 more points this week. next week we will score 25 points. we just need to keep the other team under 55 points so we can win. I think we have scored a point for every time our Q.B.'s was sacked this year.

All the changes that the new regime did to "make us competitve" - epic fail. Getting rid of Darryl Smith - failure. Keeping Gabbert & Henne - failure. Offense is showing a semblance of life - so what will they do - start Gabbert I bet. Don't know why in the world this is happening? Is Khan deliberately destroying the franchise so he can make a huge profit by selling it sooner rather than later and moving it to LA? The first game with Gabbert this year was the worst game of football I've seen in my entire life - and I'm not young! Henne is bad but Gabbert is grotesque. He falls over at a puff of wind, doesn't even look for receivers but stares down the defense and throws at the ground or falls down. Henne makes way too many bad decisions, but at least he's trying his best and isn't a TOTAL embarassment.

I've been a season ticket holder from the very first day they went on sale, but it's getting harder and harder to justify. Guess I'm a glutton for punishment, because I'll continue to go to games and watch away games - hoping for improvement. I'll probably leave lots of games early because the ineptitude will drive me nuts, but I will still be there in my seat for most of the game because I love football. However, if they start Gabbert, I will be leaving much earlier because they will have shown they don't give a flying F about winning. In 3 seasons, Gabbert has never in regular season shown that he has the ability to be an NFL QB - never once! WTF, front office, are you blind?

If they don't get rid of Gabbert and Henne and expend their #1 draft pick on someone other than a top rated QB, I'm done. Don't even know if I can give the tickets away at that point? Hopefully that day won't come, the front office will improve with their choices, and the Jags will return to being a good team.

$43 million in taxpayer money to sell how many extra tickets seven times a year? We'd do better to use it on an IMAX and amusement park at the zoo, where at least the city would get the revenue, and a few people might come from out of town to spend a few dollars.